TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morgan,Lynn
TI  - Icons of Life: a Cultural History of Human Embryos
SN  - 9780520944725
AV  - QM601 
U1  - 306.461 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - CA
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Carnegie Collection of Embryology
KW  - swd
KW  - Embryology, Human
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Tissue culture
KW  - Human reproductive technology
KW  - Medical anthropology
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Anthropology, Cultural
KW  - Collections
KW  - Embryo Research
KW  - ethics
KW  - history
KW  - Embryology
KW  - Embryologie humaine
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Tissus (Histologie)
KW  - Culture
KW  - Procréation médicalement assistée
KW  - Ethnologie
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Embryonenforschung
KW  - gnd
KW  - Kultur
KW  - Embryo
KW  - 20th century american history
KW  - 20th century scientific history
KW  - baltimore foundling homes
KW  - biology
KW  - carnegie institute of washington
KW  - embryo babies
KW  - embryo collection
KW  - embryo production factory
KW  - embryology
KW  - fetal politics
KW  - gertrude stein
KW  - healthcare
KW  - icons of life
KW  - johns hopkins anatomy department
KW  - maternal politics
KW  - medial treatment
KW  - medical care
KW  - mount holyoke collection
KW  - ourselves unborn
KW  - pregnancy
KW  - pregnant women
KW  - science
KW  - scientific study
KW  - social artifacts
KW  - specimen collecting
KW  - united states of america
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-297) and index; Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; 1 / A Skeleton in the Closet and Fetuses in the Basement; 2 / Embryo Visions; 3 / Building a Collection; 4 / Inside the Embryo Production Factory; 5 / Traffic in "Embryo Babies"; 6 / Embryo Tales; 7 / From Dead Embryos to Icons of Life; 8 / The Demise of the Mount Holyoke Collection; Notes; References; Index
N2  - Icons of Life tells the engrossing and provocative story of an early twentieth-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institution of Washington's project to collect thousands of embryos for scientific study. Lynn M. Morgan blends social analysis, sleuthing, and humor to trace the history of specimen collecting. In the process, she illuminates how a hundred-year-old scientific endeavor continues to be felt in today's fraught arena of maternal and fetal politics. Until the embryo collecting project-which she follows from the Johns Hopkins anatomy department, through Baltimore foundling homes, and all
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